As a reminder, a new prize was created by the EPO in 2022, the Young Inventor’s Prize (any field of technology), designed to reward inventors aged 30 or under at the time of the award. According to the EPO, “the winner receives the sum of EUR 20,000. The second and third […]
The European Patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) came into force on June 1st, 2023. The Unitary Patent System currently makes it possible to obtain a single form of protection in the 17 countries of the European Union that have ratified the UPC Agreement, based on the […]
The Apostille Convention (Convention of October 5, 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents) will come into force for China on November 7, 2023. The aim of this convention, which now has 125 contracting parties including Switzerland, is to abolish the requirement for legalization of foreign public documents […]